Plates Quotes - Page 18

• You can't cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Cures, Can Do

  Patricia Cornwell (2011). “Red Mist”, p.212, Hachette UK

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• The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and plate-glass tower-block, picked a handful of eucalyptus leaves from a branch, crushed them in my hand, smelt, and tears came to my eyes. Sixty-seven-year-old Claudia, on a pavement awash with packaged American matrons, crying not in grief but in wonder that nothing is ever lost, that everything can be retrieved, that a lifetime is not linear but instant. That, inside the head, everything happens at once.

  Penelope Lively

  Block, Grief, Eye

  Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.58, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I tend to vacillate between belief systems. Right now I'm kind of checking out the whole buffet, you know, and maybe in a little while I'll decide on what I want to put on my plate and chow down on.

  Kevin Hearne

  Want, Littles, Buffets

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.412, Del Rey

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• My mother had been slicing up the chicken. She took a drumstick and dropped it on the floor. She kicked it around a little, picked it up and put it on the edge of the plate. "There," she said, "we'll give him this drumstick." "Deal.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mother, Giving, Littles

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.17, Macmillan

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• I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Creativity, Acceptance, Half

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• Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.

  Steven Morrissey

  Meat, Murder, Instance

  "Morrissey attacks 'stupid' Obama over Thanksgiving traditions" by Ben Beaumont-Thomas, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2013.

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• The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.

  Peggy Noonan

  Ocean, Moving, Moved On

  "The New Political Rumbling" by Peggy Noonan, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 22, 2010.

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• Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.

  Wes Smith

  Food, Cooking, Half

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• Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Hate, Hats, Looks

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• Now, see," Wes said, nodding at my plate, "this is going to blow your mind." I looked at him. "It's a waffle, not the second coming.

  Sarah Dessen

  Blow, Mind, Waffles

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “The Truth About Forever”, p.190, Penguin UK

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• Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

  Thornton Wilder

  Life, Ice Cream, Dessert

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 1.

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• The Seer Stone referred to here was a chocolate-colored, somewhat egg-shaped stone which the Prophet found while digging a well in company with his brother Hyrum,... It possessed the qualities of Urim & Thummim, since by means of it - as described above - as well by means of the Interpreters found with the Nephite record, Joseph was able to translate the characters engraven on the plates.

  B. H. Roberts

  Brother, Character, Mean

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• I think people understand me, me as a person and what I went through because I kept it on the plate. I never hid nothing. I was never in the closet. I smoked dope, I gang banged, I did this, I did that; whatever I did it was always out.

  Snoop Dogg

  Dope, Thinking, People

  "Snoop Dogg: The Realest Part I". Interview with Octavia Bostick, allhiphop.com. June 3, 2004.

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• The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.

  A. Edward Newton

  Book, Serious, Matter

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• There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.

  Jackie Stewart

  Car, Racing, Ferrari

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• All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Philosophy, Trying, Teeth

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• Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Men, He Man

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• I had a recent delivery of new fashion plates from Paris, and you hardly glanced at the hairstyles. My husband tells me you are still having difficulty controlling the change. And your cravat has been tied very simply of late, even for evening events.

  Gail Carriger

  Fashion, Husband, Paris

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• It's a sad day when Myrnin is the safe choice, she thought. Apparently, he thought so, too, because he gave her a long, troubled look before pressing his thumb to a glass plate inside the room and opening the door.

  Rachel Caine

  Glasses, Doors, Long

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Bite Club”, p.64, Allison & Busby

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• The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.

  Paul Bocuse

  Food, Mean, Cooking

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• She came awake, stomach rumbling, and opened her eyes to see a plate being held right under her nose. When she reached for it, Shane snatched it back. "Nuh-uh. Mine." "Share!" she demanded. "Man, you are one grabby girlfriend." She grinned. It always made her feel so fiercly warm inside to hear him say that- the girlfriend part, not the grabby part. "If you love me, you'll give me a taco." "Seriously? That's all you got? What about you'll do sexy, illegal things to me for a taco?" "Not for a taco," she said. "I'm not cheap." "They're brisket tacos." "Now you're talking.

  Rachel Caine

  Sexy, Girlfriend, Eye

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• Since I’ve been on my own, I’ve been eating a lot of popcorn, cereal, instant noodles, and snack bars. I have a hot plate in my bedroom, a microwave, and a small fridge. That’s the kind of kitchen I know how to get around in.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Cereal, Snacks, Kitchen

  Karen Marie Moning (2008). “Faefever: Fever Series”, p.39, Delacorte Press

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• In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.

  Duke Snider

  Thinking, Swings, Hands

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• If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate.

  Brock Yates

  Wall, Communication, Home

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• Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.

  David Wong Louie

  Famine

  David Wong Louie (2000). “The Barbarians are Coming: A Novel”, Marian Wood

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